Every Friday the Mail & Guardian hosts a live video chat on our website on the major news topic of the week.
This week we chat to Phillip de Wet, as well as Lionel Faull from the Mail & Guardian Centre for Investigative Journalism, amaBhungane. In August last year amaBhunganeexposed how Malema's company On-Point Engineering won a R52-million contract to administer part of a R4.6-billion provincial roads budget for the Limpopo roads and transport department, and last week Faull revealed how the University of Limpopo was oiling the wheels of the patronage machine around Malema through two multimillion-rand contracts handed to Malema's close associates.

M&G online deputy editor Verashni Pillay will pose your comments and questions to our reporters during the chat. We will also take your tweets in real time sent to @verashni. You can watch the video on this link when it begins at noon on Friday, September 28 2012, and the recorded version afterwards.

Some of the questions we'll be tackling:

AJ from East London: "Does Julius Malema still get a salary from the government now that he has been expelled? What does he do for a living [and income] now?"

Common question from our readers: Will Malema ever be president.

Bongani Mbanjwa: "Money laundering is about illicit money. The money in question came from government coffers and went to service providers. What is illicit in this case?"

AJ from East London: "Did Mr Malema actually spend any time in prison? Has he ever been in prison before. Any criminal record? Did this trial involve any prison time?"

Gil in Port Shepstone: "Mr Malema's appearance in court is clearly politically motivated. The ANC is using states resource to silence the fearless ones."